Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Eric | Ferrante | Tanay | Tandon | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Clipped: Automated Text Summarization through Clustered Machine Learning and Semantic Natural Language Processing Algorithms (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 |
| Grand Prize Student Award: $800 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Homestead High School | Jillian | Fackrell | Maya Anusha | Josyula | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Earth's Carbon Sinks: Exploring the Effects of Melting Arctic Ocean Ice (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Mary Anne | Plano | Irfan Danial | Faizullabhoy | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Building a Sound Barrier that uses Acoustic Decoupling Noise Cancellation to Minimize Road-Noise (Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Jay G. | Kamat | 1st Award, Physics Category | Exploring the Effect of Water Hardness on the Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Ayush | Mehra | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Building a Sound Barrier that uses Acoustic Decoupling Noise Cancellation to Minimize Road-Noise (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Alex | Nagase | 1st Award, Physics Category | Exploring the Effect of Water Hardness on the Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Noorsher | Ahmed | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Quenching the World's Thirst: Rapid Distillation and Treatment of Ocean Water into Potable Drinking Water Using Electromagnetic Waves in the Microwave Frequency (Engineering) | 12 |
| Nuha | Ahmed | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Magnetic Braking System for Automobiles (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sneha | Annamaneni | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Physical Exercise on Neurogenesis in the Nematode Caenorhabdins elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Nithin | Buduma | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Correlating the number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin protein with cytotoxicity: A prognostic marker for the severity of Huntington's Disease (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Yuyuan | Chen | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Cosmic Ray Effects on Cellphone and Laptop Applications (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Anand B | Chukka | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Analysis Algorithm to Differentiate the Beating Patterns of Adult and Fetal Cardiomyocytes (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Durga | Ganesh | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Determining the Most Effective Preservative to Increase the Lungs Viability over time before Transfer (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Albert | Ge | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluation of the Interleukin-16 Knockout Mouse as a Novel Model of Human Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome ALPS (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Akruti Mahesh | Gupta | 2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | A Novel Design for Wind Technology that Harnesses Wind Energy in Urban Areas (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amrita Vaishnavi | Iyer | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Resveratrol on the Lifespan of Overfed Drosophila melanogaster (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Adish | Jain | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effectiveness of Lowering Senior Citizens' Social Isolation Through a Website (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Maitreyee Ramprasad | Joshi | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Use of Haptic Rendering Devices to Bring Tactile Sensation to Upper Extremity Prosthetics (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Eesha | Khare | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Design and Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible High-Performance Supercapacitors (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $50, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Somya | Khare | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Improving Binding Affinity of the Calbindin-9k Protein to Develop an Efficient Calcium Biosensor (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Timothy W. | Lin | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Effect of Chinese Herbal Medicine on C. elegans Genetically Modified to Exhibit Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Symptoms. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| James | Ma | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Design, Fabrication and Calibration of a Temperature Gradient Sensor for Use in the Study of Life in the Extreme. (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nidhi Ajay | Navaratna | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Pattern Identification and Prediction of M-and-X-class Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Through Computerized Analysis of Solar Magnetograms (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Akhil Amar | Padmanabha | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effectiveness of Lowering Senior Citizens' Social Isolation Through a Website (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A practical approach to water purification using filtration by photoactivated Degussa P25 making use of nanoparticles to eliminate pathogens and organic impurities. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Sonia S. | Raghuram | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Analysis Algorithm to Differentiate the Beating Patterns of Adult and Fetal Cardiomyocytes (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Kimberly Mary | Vaz | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | The Development of a User-Friendly Automated Sprinkler Control System with Emphasis on Water Optimization Customized for Different Plants. (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nancy Jianing | Zhou | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Sources Attempting the Renaturation of Denatured Catalase on its Enzymatic Activity (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Jason | Lee | Arka | Bagchi | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Maximization of CO2 Intake Through Phytochrome Genetic Overexpression, Chemical Enhancement, and Fungal Alteration (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| Rachit | Kataria | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Maximization of CO2 Intake Through Phytochrome Genetic Overexpression, Chemical Enhancement, and Fungal Alteration (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Ankush | Rayabhari | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Electronic Touch Sensor for Detecting Human Alertness (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kathleen | Loia | Vishwajit | Kode | Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Development of Magnetite Expressing Bacteriophage and Cells for High Resolution MRI Tracking In Vivo (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| Ashwin | Srikant | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | An Analysis of the Effect of Histone Deacytelase Inhibitors on Cohesin Function in Wild-type and Mutant varieties of Saccharomyces cerevisae (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Roy | Rocklin | Vibhav Satsheel | Altekar | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Quest to Engineer a Cheap Efficient Microbial Fuel Cell (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aayush | Gupta | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | The Effect of the Magnetic Poles of the Planets on the Sun (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Sherry | Sarkar | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | A Way to Stop Algae Blooms: Separating Fertilizer from Storm Drain Runoff (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Brittany | Stevens | Hima Varsha | Rajana | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | This Is Your Brain on Music : The Effect of Music on Academic Performance in Teenagers (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |
| Monta Vista High School | Sheila | Altmann | YoungJean | Han | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Correlation Between the Bed Time Variability and Short-Term Memory Retrieval (Behavioral / Social) | 10 |
| Jim | Birdsong | Julia H | Miao | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Kathleen H. | Miao | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Disha | Bahl | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) | 10 | |
| Sumanth | Balaraman | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Using Smartphones to Screen for and Correct Hearing Loss (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Jiangyan | Du | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Surrounding Conditions on Shewanella oneidensis in the Reduction of Chromium (VI) (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Jonathan F | Fung | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Monosodium Glutamate: A Potential Ligand for mGluRs One and Five that causes Microtubule Depolymerization in Alzheimer's disease? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Nishant | Jain | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | 3D Markerless Tracking in Augmented Reality:A Moblie Interface for the Global Deployment of Spatial Anatomical Education (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| 3rd Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Venkata Soumith | Jonnakuti | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Sandhya | Kannan | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Biofilm Disassembly Using Glycoside Hydrolase Enzymes on E.coli Biofilm Matrices (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Ashish | Samaddar | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Aiswarya Sunil | Sankar | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Reduction of Glutamate Levels in a Saline Solution through the Combined Administration of Insulin and Glucagon (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Vishnu | Shankar | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Application Of a Novel De-Novo and Homology-based Algorithm to Predict the 3D Structure and Dynamics of Human DP G-Protein Coupled Receptor for Cardiovascular and Immune Systems (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Anika N. | Ullah | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Is There a Difference Between Genders In the Neuronal Markers of Myenteric Plexus, and Could this Explain Why Some Common G1 Ailments Preferentially Affect Females? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Molly M. | Vora | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Facial Dysmorphologies Caused By an Imbalance in Wnt Signaling (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Jeremy Chi-Chao | Wang | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Kathryn Sarah | Wong | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | Pharmacokinetics study of FC-FLT3L (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Debbie | Frazier | Ajay B | Gopinath | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Computational Modeling of Phytoplanktonic Organisms to Resolve "The Paradox of the Plankton" in Aquatic Biology (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Yuhui (Anna) | Liu | First Place: $1000 American Express Gift Card and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies | Graphene as a Fluorescence Quencher in Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Namrata | Ramani | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Optimization of The Strength of Porous Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Through Silicon Coating (Physics) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Kavita | Gupta | Shruthi Reddy | Perati | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Molecular Study of Ror2/Wnt Signaling Pathways and Their Effects on Facial Deformities During Embryonic Development (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Anshul Asawa | Ramachandran | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Substructure Mining by Application of Weighted Molecular Bonds to a Simplicial Complex Representation of Molecules (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Joe | Kim | Natalie | Ng | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival in Breast Cancer (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Jon | Stark | Adyota | Gupta | 1st Award, Engineering Category | SmartVest: Redesigning and Revolutionizing the Conventional Bulletproof Vest (Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and Silver Medal, United States Army | |||||||